Well, for those of you who have been following along in this thread, I'm done with this pair of flip flops.

My results?

E6000 = did not workto hold the ribbon to the strapsLoctite adhesive = did not workto hold the ribbon to the strapsSpecial Flip Flop glue = did not workto hold the ribbon to the straps

So, I added the korkers and took a pic so you can all see how they turned out. What I will most likely do is rip the ribbon back off from the straps and just leave the green ribbon on down around the soles.

Now, I'm not saying everyone will encounter this same problem. It could be just a bad pair of ON flip flops. But I will say that they are extremely flexible and that could be contributing to the ooze factor.